Press Releases

On Feb. 22 and 24, representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will host two sessions of a Virtual Coastal Flood Map Open House for the Lake Michigan shoreline communities in Brown County, Wisconsin. The open house will give residents the chance to review preliminary versions of a recently completed Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report and its accompanying preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM).

On April 10th, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a Temporary Final Rule (TFR) entitled Prioritization and Allocation of Certain Scarce or Threatened Health and Medical Resources for Domestic Consumption. The TFR allocates to domestic use, as appropriate, several types of scarce or threatened materials (“covered materials”.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $6.7 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse Mass General Brigham, Inc. for the cost of steps taken to deal with increased patient loads caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Preliminary flood risk information and updated Flood Insurance Rate Maps are available for review by residents and business owners in affected communities in Worcester County, Massachusetts. Residents and business owners are encouraged to review the latest information to learn about local flood risks and potential future flood insurance requirements.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $5.6 million to the State of Connecticut to reimburse it for the cost of quarantining corrections workers and other steps taken to prevent the spread of the coronavirus during the pandemic.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $23 million to the State of Vermont to reimburse it for the cost of providing testing to the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.